We've been arguing for a while here on techPresident that the candidate who best used the internet to enable his supporters to join in co-creating the campaign would have a big edge come November. Now we're seeing what Isaac Garcia, CEO of Central Desktop, called the rise of the "long tail of politics": tremendous metrics as the Obama get-out-the-vote operation goes into the final stretch. Those numbers include 50,000 new events organized using myBO in the last three weeks, at least 20,000 neighborhood team leaders, 1.9 million newly registered voters, and 13.3 million voter contacts.